A visit to the Vatican Library

No one is allowed to borrow from the Vatican Library, except the pope. And no wonder: the archive holds some of the oldest and most precious works of art and treasure known to man. Morley Safer gets to see the best of the best.

[@sonofangron2969]

I may be an unrepentant heathen, but I have always adored and admired the Catholic Church for its unfathomable plethora of cultural contributions to the West over the course of two millennia. I visited the Papal Palace and Observatory in Rome years ago and have been inside the Vatican, but can scarcely fathom the value, historical and religious, of the contents of the Papal Library...

[@rebeccagutierrez1401]

Repent, heathen. God loves you!

[@sanchayansarkar2953]

You mean appropriating other ancient cultures of the world.

[@Nick-X]

@@sanchayansarkar2953 Oh? What did they appropriate from you? Do you feel the same about 'appropriating' the technology you're using right now? Or the language you're speaking in order to convey your first-year university student inflected faux-moral condemnation of an entire religious and cultural legacy? Tell me, honestly, what you believe to have been 'appropriated', and from whom, and what you would like done in order to rectify this atrocity, that is so obviously weighing heavily upon your soul and tormenting your mind. Cheers.

[@carlobrotto7132]

​​​@@sanchayansarkar2953 Vatican " appropriated" nothing from ancient cultures, they're not the stealers or robbers the Paul Getty, the NY and other american museums actually are...🤫

[@rickgroot4068]

would love to spend some days in there

[@aas131995]

For real 😃🙏✝️

[@docd5062]

The comic book collection is unreal

[@deepakranadey7431]

rick groot I think u would get bored

[@deepakranadey7431]

It’s like going thru HR files from 2000 years

[@ButterBallTheOpossum]

Those books are more precious than gold

[@josedcastaneda]

Literally

[@aldrichhendrict7299]

history is history, past is past.. no body can change it... but from me, i very proud because the lbry in vatican city have many book that contain of many type of history. yes we know that beside pope, no body can borrow the book. i think because pope n vatican want to maintain the heritage. once the book's lost, we also lost our civilization and history..

[@etraise2]

Oh my God. Would love to even skim that place a little.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner...

[@brandonm30]

Everybody keeps saying they got the surviving copied scrolls of the library of Alexandria in a vault to never be seen makes u wonder what else they got.

[@frankkennethdepamaylo4019]

Well most of the book from alexandria has been burned cuz empires who took over the place thinks its blasphamous to read those....but the church tried to restore those considering other empires try to destroy those

[@carlobrotto7132]

You're right ! Protestants need to make an investigation, so the Vatican conspiracy will be revealed...😂🤣

[@80sthrashmetal]

Make everything into PDF files and release it to the general public

[@kennarajora6532]

@@DJ-sn2wn only around 25% is digitized anyhow. That means you can't read, some, 3 out of 4 of the books in the Vatican library.

[@frankkennethdepamaylo4019]

Well most of the books are in italian or latin...unless you speak and read on those....but if not its useless for you

[@kennarajora6532]

@@frankkennethdepamaylo4019 Sept for King Henry's letter about Pretty duckies. That's priceless.

[@itszia9291]

No!

[@josedcastaneda]

There is a website you can visit from the Vatican website.

[@ianclark6485]

The vatican library really is the holy grail! Simply amazing, a true, beautiful testament to christianity and its history. This is the wonderful side to religion.

[@pumasgoya]

@@DJ-sn2wn as opposed to your local store front church?

[@MT-sw8rf]

The holy grail is not an object, but a human being

[@kennymichaelalanya7134]

@@DJ-sn2wn I'm just afraid of what people can do with that knowledge. There must be old books about witchcraft and Satanism

[@-BROWNMONK-]

Things hidden will come to light.

[@RW-ij1ci]

Next time you are at the vatican go get yourself ask for a Vatican library card and see how far you get.

[@knight3121]

I have one!.

[@KarimKarim-kj7hx]

Search for maps of treasures for North Africa

[@noone-so6dv]

​@@knight3121 how to get one?

[@science212]

Vatican library is very beautiful.

[@MoisesAguirre-uv4oy]

I hope I can see it myself one day

[@RW-ij1ci]

A treasure of humanity that is locked away from humanity....

[@lapat6105]

Well that would ruin all there lies they added to the bible..The Pope is a child molesting, Evil Beast

[@pumasgoya]

@@lapat6105 the Bible has lies? They added them to it? More like KJV added and subtracted.

[@frankkennethdepamaylo4019]

Well all of the archives are catholic related...

[@marklomax7452]

it ain't locked away from humanity. thousands of scholars a year, catholic and non-catholic use it.

[@LoInfinity]

​@@marklomax7452they can take pictures and scan all documents and make it digital for everyone on the internet be able to read. Why hide knowledge?

[@JamesColvent]

Love the power and majesty of the Vatican and the history of the great Catholic religion!

[@allmusicgirl]

I will love to go the Vatican Library. :D :)

[@ichbineintoober]

I liked the end. Morley Safer just inspires me.

[@volvacations2186]

Am I the only one that was yelling "Why aren't you wearing gloves?!" when they were turning the pages of the bible?

[@pumasgoya]

me too!

[@itszia9291]

🤠

[@marklomax7452]

those are artistic reproductions they are handling not originals. they mentioned it in the text.

[@savioblanc]

Really? I like it! It sounds like grandpa telling me a story :D

[@johnathanha9340]

All Protestants should spend their time learning about Catholic faith and their origin. All their misled hatred towards Catholic churches will be rid of completely. Amen+

[@frankkennethdepamaylo4019]

Couldnt argee more

[@MT-sw8rf]

The problem is the paedophilia, not the church as such

[@fredisausthevenision1071]

I have a request to the pope Francis. put everything in a computer.and put it on line!!!🇮🇹

[@Chubachus]

Unbelievable that these idiots aren't wearing gloves when handling such treasures!

[@gbaig9264]

Gloves for preservation

[@pphelps57]

They are surely required to thoroughly wash their hands before entering...I would hope!

[@eirikmurito]

Gloves are overrated

[@DThorn619]

Gloves cause issues, you cannot feel the paper so you are more likely to accidentally tear it.

[@riverice7]

What an amazing place! History seen but I think mankind will NEVER change. We do the same atrocities, crimes and sins we [humanity]has always and will always do! Sigh.......

[@qwertycoupe]

“The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history”

[@Wheres-Wolfie]

So only a select few can read these books? Wow that's awesome. Keeping knowledge away from us common folk isn't very Christian!!! I'm a Christian but have no church because the worship of the speaker and not the word. Peace

[@God1stProductions]

😂🤦‍♂️🤡 bro you dont even wash your hands before reading your Bible (thanks to Catholic Church) and you think you could handle this library? Yet alone other treasures and artefacts they have?

[@mortalclown3812]

Miss you, Morley. Sure would love to know what you think about America circa 2020. Rest in Joy.

[@Asiablue]

Magnificent!

[@phixphixation7261]

If this is such a treasure for humanity, then why can only the pope take a book out? Why can nobody copy those books and store them digitally so that humanity actually has access to it? The church just doesn't want us to know what is there.

[@God1stProductions]

So that pagans and heatens like yourself dont destroy it with your filthy fingers. Beisdes real Christians, yall wouldn’t know what to do with all of it.

[@midshipman8654]

do you know how time consuming transcribing, cataloging, and digitizing is while retaining artifact composure so its not damaged? Ive worked in archiving before in a relatively small archive with stuff usually only back 300 years and we STILL haven’t gotten through all of the stuff. I can only assume the difficulties of the VATICAN archive is magnitudes greater then this. Its great hearing people who have little knowledge about a subject complaining like they know about it

[@phixphixation7261]

@@midshipman8654 Are there signs that the Vatican is releasing this information piece by piece, whenever something new is cataloged? Is there an ongoing project that is doing this work? They have enough money to do this and hire the best people and equipment.

[@carlobrotto7132]

Where you got that only the Pope can take a book out ? That's the usual, silly lie the protestant priests keep on telling since centuries ! At least 90% of ancient books have been made available for everyone interested, almost all ancient greek books are known thanks to the Church that made copies back since middle age.

[@kennymichaelalanya7134]

I want to read some books. Even if I can't read them, it would be nice to see the pictures

[@nromk]

That few people have seen first hand should probably be recreated, as experts of all sorts have access to the Vatican Library, the Vatican Library is more akin to the Library of Congress.

[@inokomodo5869]

Give us the kama sutra book u wont be needing it

[@408Magenta]

Alessandro Marzo Magno's book, "Bound in Venice".

[@oscarpadilla9936]

The books so old but they handle them bare hands ✋️ isn't there a better way ...

[@DivineAegis02]

Nice documentary, Does anyone know if there is any information about the artifacts including relics of early saints that are available? I was doing my research on the Byzantine relics that were lost and later found in the Vatican... I would like know what has survived and what hasn't. Overall I think this is a great treasure to human History.

[@Digitalgems9000]

11 years and no response lol

[@canadiancafe6584]

@1maxmorph Yes, Reason and Logic, the best Digital Audio workstations possible! Power to the MIDI!

[@henryhill6706]

The Catholic Church did the same thing with the scripts that they approved, They just didn't destroy the rest, its just kept hidden in their libraries

[@carlobrotto7132]

That's the nonsensed joke the protestant bosses keep on telling since centuries...! 🤣

[@SAMANTHAREVELS38]

YAHWEH is the truth..

[@au8363]

Glory To The Triune GOD

[@modigbeowulf5482]

Really good.

[@brycetsawyer]

I’m sure they got better stuff than love letters and old bibles…

[@toughflowers5088]

So what part of the body is duckies 🐤? The two milk bags, peach behind, or the rose in-between legs?

[@BroodingEnt]

31 miles of books

[@general5886]

does anybody else notice the FLAT EARTH map @14:55

[@pphelps57]

@14:55 in a twelve minute video? No, sorry I didn't notice it...

[@SignedWhatever]

🤣

[@T-19-]

Yeah, I seen it

[@KaadlawonDAlba]

I want go there

[@danielsanchez1271]

2:30 the money of PALESTINE 2000 years ago👂🏽👌

[@spiritlove2]

I wonder what books any of the popes have taken out of the library? I also wonder what the pope from way back then would say about the pope now?

[@spiritlove2]

That was odd, I was the 667 like

[@pedroksa]

the money of "Palestine" a reminder

[@T-19-]

A reality check.

[@rathchamroeunnuon1891]

The biggest problem is language.Hm...maybe it's not easy to understand about those books,including the meanings of these pictures!!

[@victor256in]

Can I read all the details about the Borgia pope?

[@carlobrotto7132]

Sure, they're in whatever source of web you click on...

[@Susieq26754]

2 Thessalonians Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us-whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter-asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

[@borisbryant.007]

treasure to humanity kept from humanity ??? how do you explain that ????????????????????????

[@marklomax7452]

it ain't kept from humanity. thousands of scholars a year, catholic and non-catholic use it.

[@TheTomahawkRepublic]

@ 11:07 that symbo 📚l # "eureka "

[@nanettejean758]

All these books and they gave us only 66...

[@beausu5823]

Those are collections of variety of books. Not all has religious significance. Also, it’s the fault of Martin Luther why you only have 66 books in the bible. The original canon of bible has 73 books in the Bible. So the Catholic Bible has complete 73 books of the bible.

[@KarimKarim-kj7hx]

Search for maps of treasures for North Africa

[@stevehinnenkamp5625]

The Irish guardian early on has a decidedly evil aura surrounding him. It is not a beatific halo. Bad news in the library for sure.

[@MT-sw8rf]

Was thinking just the same. He's definitely involved in some dark energy stuff. Did you notice what he said - "the human brain cannot understand" what's in the books... Sure, cos some of them are as dark as him

[@mjrotondi5086]

Amazing that I too picked up on an evil that is a part of the Irish Priest. He has a supercilious smile, looking down on others . Priests are fake and evil for the most part.

[@ergosumadrieyl2927]

Mmm. Well he's dead. And gosh, being dead is annoying too -.-

[@istifanose7575]

why sun of god symbol do on the top of so calll 14 cethury bible it shows how it built red flag before you go further::

[@KarimKarim-kj7hx]

I want things about North Africa who help me

[@alecialove4331]

Why is it close to the public ,

[@frankkennethdepamaylo4019]

Cause their old stuff they might be damaged if they are too used or expose

[@michaelrief4424]

So it’s Not actually a Library, it’s s Museum of Books and only the Pope can take a book from the place. Why even bother to keep the lights on?

[@RickyLole]

The library can only be accessed by scholars, professors etc. It's simply not open to to regular joe schmoes like you and I (and for good reason)

[@TheSurviver2]

Interesting

[@3goldy]

איכות תמונה נמוכה מידיי

[@AngelDiMauro1]

Please don't text & drive.

[@jocelyn3524]

What does pagan mean?

[@lalloo93]

Someone who doesn’t believe in the main world religions and follows multiple gods that do things for stature and not the good of the world. For example, Greek and Norse mythology.

[@Tj-vc5im]

How you justify stealing

[@NaimaG12]

Hand written and translated by …WHO. Zzzzz accuracies and inaccuracies lol.

[@mryup6100]

2:57

[@johnwhittle-mp2ti]

Bunch of dodgy wrong uns deffo😢😢

[@Tj-vc5im]

They stole all this stuff

[@Ramirez83786]

I would burn the place. Almost no one has acces to them anyway.

[@johnnybravo5179]

Lol

[@ev3goddess]

I~*

[@jayblake6853]

Fake gods lol.

[@au8363]

God Is Real

[@dinocruz3377]

I'm catholic why can't I visit

[@T-19-]

You could be an informant